TRUMP REMINDS FRENCH PRESIDENT MACRON: YOU’D BE UNDER NAZI RULE IF NOT FOR THE U.S.

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The war of words between President Trump and his French
counterpart has heated up again with Trump reminding Emmanuel Macron
that if it were not for the US, France would be a German speaking nation
now.
“They were starting to learn German in Paris before the US came along,” Trump tweeted, adding “Pay for NATO or not!”

67.9K people are talking about thisTrump’s initial tweet touches on the fact that the proposal of a European-wide army, and even an empire, as suggested Monday by France’s finance minister, led directly to two world wars.

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U.S.A. –-(Ammoland.com)- In a rebuke bordering on national insult Sunday, Emmanuel Macron retorted to Donald Trump’s calling himself a nationalist.

“Patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism; nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism.”

As
for Trump’s policy of “America first,” Macron trashed such atavistic
thinking in this new age: “By saying we put ourselves first and the
others don’t matter, we erase what a nation holds dearest, what gives it
life, what makes it great and what is essential: its moral values.”
Though
he is being hailed as Europe’s new anti-Trump leader who will stand up
for transnationalism and globalism, Macron reveals his ignorance of
America.
Trump’s ideas are not ideological but rooted in our country’s history.
America
was born between the end of the French and Indian War, the Declaration
of Independence in 1776 and the ratification of the Constitution in
1788. Both the general who led us in the Revolution and the author of
that declaration became president. Both put America first. And both
counseled their countrymen to avoid “entangling” or “permanent”
alliances with any other nation, as we did for 160 years.
Were George Washington or Thomas Jefferson lacking in patriotism?
When
Woodrow Wilson, after being re-elected in 1916 on the slogan “He Kept
Us Out of War,” took us into World War I, he did so as an “associate,”
not as an Allied power. U.S. troops fought under U.S. command.
After
that war, the U.S. Senate rejected an alliance with France. Under
Franklin Roosevelt, Congress formally voted for neutrality in any future
European war.
The U.S. emerged from World War II as the least
bloodied and least damaged nation because we remained out of the war for
more than two years after it had begun.
We did not invade France
until four years after France was occupied, the British had been thrown
off the Continent, and Josef Stalin’s Soviet Union had been fighting and
dying for three years.
The leaders who kept us out of the two
world wars as long as they did — did they not serve our nation well,
when America’s total losses were just over 500,000 dead, compared with
the millions other nations lost?
At the Armistice Day ceremony,
Macron declared, “By saying we put ourselves first and the others don’t
matter, we erase what a nation holds dearest … its moral values.”
But Trump did not say that other countries don’t matter. He only said we should put our own country first.
What country does Emmanuel Macron put first?
Or does the president of France see himself as a citizen of the world with responsibility for all of Europe and all of mankind?
Charles
de Gaulle was perhaps the greatest French patriot in the 20th century.
Yet he spoke of a Europe of nation-states, built a national nuclear
arsenal, ordered NATO out of France in 1966, and, in Montreal in 1967,
declared, “Long live a free Quebec” — inciting French Canadians to rise
up against “les Anglo-Saxons” and create their own nation.
Was de Gaulle lacking in patriotism?
By declaring American nationalists anti-patriotic, Macron has asserted a claim to the soon-to-be-vacant chair of Angela Merkel.
But
is Macron really addressing the realities of the new Europe and world
in which we now live, or is he simply assuming a heroic liberal posture
to win the applause of Western corporate and media elites?
The
realities: In Britain, Scots are seeking secession, and the English have
voted to get out of the European Union. Many Basques and Catalans wish
to secede from Spain. Czechs and Slovaks have split the blanket and
parted ways.
Anti-EU sentiment is rampant in populist-dominated Italy.
A nationalism their peoples regard as deeply patriotic has triumphed in Poland and Hungary and is making gains even in Germany.
The
leaders of the world’s three greatest military powers — Trump in the
U.S., Vladimir Putin in Russia and Xi Jinping in China — are all
nationalists.
Turkish nationalist Recep Tayyip Erdogan rules in
Ankara, Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi in India. Jair Bolsonaro, a
Trumpian nationalist, is the incoming president of Brazil. Is not
Benjamin Netanyahu an Israeli nationalist?
In France, a poll of
voters last week showed that Marine Le Pen’s renamed party,
Rassemblement National, has moved ahead of Macron’s party for the May
2019 European Parliament elections.
If there is a valid criticism
of Trump’s foreign policy, it is not that he has failed to recognize the
new realities of the 21st century but that he has not moved
expeditiously to dissolve old alliances that put America at risk of war
in faraway lands where no vital U.S. interests exist.
Why are we
still committed to fight for a South Korea far richer and more populous
than a nuclear-armed North? Why are U.S. planes and ships still bumping
into Russian planes and ships in the Baltic and Black seas?
Why are we still involved in the half-dozen wars into which Bush II and Barack Obama got us in the Middle East?
Why do we not have the “America first” foreign policy we voted for?

About Patrick J. Buchanan
Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of the new book “The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority.“